It's All About The Questions

91: Larry Baum - Cybersecurity and You - How to Protect Yourself

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An innocently sent email to a client with wire transfer numbers from your business email account. Not a yahoo.com account. Think you are safe? No. In this episode you will hear a story of how someone found out there email account was part of the yahoo account and almost lost a significant sum of money. If it was not for the client asking why he gave them a routing number for a bank in Spain the business owner could have lost even more. I am a geek. Love being a geek. What I don't love is how much time has to be spent protecting ourselves and clients from those with malicious intent. It is an uphill battle but using some common sense rules can make you much safer. Larry Baum, Founder of The Computing Center 38 years ago, and I talk cybersecurity, email, the future of online safety and what you can do right now to protect yourself and your business. Oh and he flew in just to be in the studio with me! Larry Baum founded the original organization that became The Computing Center in 1978. Today, with Mary Stazi no